50 Up!
A High-Class Half Century
We have pleasure in sending warm congratulations to our good friends at Backpass on the notable occasion of them bringing out their 50th issue. This is a nostalgia magazine of the highest calibre and, served as it is by a host of Midlands-based writers, has always been rich in Wolves content.
Wolves In Different Clothing
You Couldn’t Make It Up!
Tom Bennett played, Andy Mutch was on the substitutes’ bench and Paul Cook was not only in the starting line-up – he scored the winner. There was a place for Eric Nixon in goal and Sean Connelly and Tony Dinning were others on view.
Mouth-Watering Outlook For Stowell And Friends
Big Time Is Here For Wolves Favourite
It would probably be just as well for Mike Stowell and all those other King Power Stadium heroes if there is no Leicester win/Tottenham defeat combination of results on the final day of the Premier League season tomorrow. What already seems scarcely believable would surely further enter the realms of fantasy if the champions’ lead stretches as far as 13 points and makes theirs the biggest winning margin in the top flight since Manchester United in 1999.
Player Turnover Going Up And Up
Debut Day With Wolves An Increasingly Regular Thing
Kenny Jackett has more than a promotion and a near miss on his Molineux CV. He is also very much ‘top end’ in handing debuts to Wolves players. Having just overseen his 150th match in charge of the club, the head coach can look back on three years of high turnover in terms of permanent signings, loan captures and the blooding of youngsters developed on his adopted patch.
Missed It!
Continental Jaunt That Evaded Our Researchers
Wolves Heroes’ sister company Thomas Publications are grateful to super-fan Peter Abbott for delving into his massive memory bank and recalling a little-known trip the club made approaching 40 years ago. Soon after the well-read Wolves All Over The World book hit the shelves in the autumn, Peter – one of the faithful first purchasers – let it be known that he thought a brief hop across the Channel had been overlooked in the text.
A Phew From Hugh…….Leicester Have Turned The Tables!
Foxes Cup Finalist Who Tasted Heartbreak At Hands Of Spurs
It would be stretching a point to say Hugh McIlmoyle has just emerged from 55 years of hurt through Leicester’s successful, unbelievable sealing of the Premier League crown. But the centre-forward, who had a prolific Wolves spell in the mid-1960s, is nevertheless thrilled at the title race outcome as he nurses vivid memories of the day he and his fellow Foxes went head-to-head against Tottenham with another of the game’s major honours at stake.
Aussie-Based Keeper Who Missed Out At Wolves
Return Call Put Paid To Hopes Of A Molineux Career
Several weeks ago, we were asked by supporter and keen Wolves Heroes follower Kevin Jones whether we could shed any light as to why a Ron Tilsed happened to be in goal in a Central League derby against Albion at Molineux in 1971-72. We entrusted Charles Bamforth, who has ‘form’ for tracking down individuals on our behalf, to see if he could locate our man….
Dear Diary Entry 55
A Project To Put Your Shirt On
Friday, April 1: Had a two-hour meeting in one of the Billy Wright Stand’s executive boxes about the terrific They Wore The Shirt project that is advancing nicely. Steve Plant, whose brainchild this quality, hard-back book is, continues to be an inspirational leader
Still On The Reunion Trail
Knighton Accepts Second-Time-Round Invite
When we teamed up in 2012 with former Wolves youth player John Doughty and played a support role in a 50-years-on reunion he was organising for his Molineux contemporaries, we promised we would be back with further news from and/or on this interesting character. A proud Black Country lad, he remained in the area throughout the successful business life that followed his football career – part of the reason he is still in touch with any number of good friends who progressed further in the game than he did.
The Gift Of Love
A Time For Remembering
Wolves Former Players Association have used their 2016 dinner to honour the memory of some of their departed friends by making a £2,000 donation to help fund a new reminisce room at the city’s New Cross Hospital. And with Wolves Aid agreeing to match the amount, a £4,000 presentation was made last night to the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust by family representatives of those we have loved and lost such as Barry Stobart, Peter Broadbent, Bert Williams, Roy Swinbourne, Dave Wagstaffe, Bobby Thomson, Alf Crook and Malcolm Finlayson.